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Nicole Hensley

White supremacists carrying torches return to Confederate statue in Charlottesville

Dozens of torch-wielding white supremacists led by Richard Spencer flocked to a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday for the first time since a neo-Nazi attacked marching protesters, killing one.

The group, some wearing white collared shirts, briefly surrounded a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee near the University of Virginia campus.

"We are here to represent white America's interests," one member of the group shouted, through a loudspeaker at the former Lee Park.

The hate group's mouthpiece jeered what he described anti-white policies and rhetoric, and then slammed right-wing pols for not standing by their cause.

"The right-wing establishment refuses to stick out for their own people, their own voters," according to a video of the protest.

WVIR-TV reported that the group left the park, now known as Emancipation Park, shortly after making a statement.

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